another one bites the dust

I had court again last Friday, and the guy never showed, so rack up another one for Officer Grindy, 5-0 baby!

On a more sour note, one option violators have in California is what's called a trial by declaration, or as we call it, trial by deck. How it works is the violator writes a letter to the court outlining their side of the story, the officer does the same in a more formal fashion, the judge reads both and issues a verdict. I had my first two of these the other day and came out batting .500. For the same violation, same circumstances, same observations, same narrative on my part, and I won one and lost one. The only difference is one lady tried to get out of her car and I slammed the door in her face and made her late to take her 12 yr old son to his tutor appointment because he couldn't walk the 300 feet to the house by himself, and the other lady was super nice and ran the stop sign at 35 mph because she didn't see it and was from Washington so its an out of state violator. None of those factors should have anything to do with whether they're guilty or not except whether or not I saw them run the stinkin' stop sign!!! Oh well, what're you gonna do? Next time.